No. 24-5753

Robert Leslie Roberson III v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2024-10-15
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: actual-innocence capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus procedural-bar scientific-evidence
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether the TCCA's unexplained application of a procedural bar violates the federal due process clause when a capital state habeas applicant asserts actual innocence based on substantial new scientific and medical evidence that was unavailable when the last application was filed?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the TCCA's unexplained application of a procedural bar violates the federal due process clause when a capital state habeas applicant asserts actual innocence based on substantial new scientific and medical evidence that was unavailable when the last application was filed?

Docket Entries

2024-10-17
Reply of petitioner Robert Roberson filed.
2024-10-17
Application (24A349) referred to the Court.
2024-10-17
Petition DENIED. (Detached Opinion)
2024-10-17
Application (24A349) for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. Statement of Justice Sotomayor respecting the denial of the application for stay of execution and denial of certiorari. (Detached Opinion)
2024-10-16
Brief of respondent Texas in opposition filed.
2024-10-15
2024-10-15
Application (24A349) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Robert Roberson
Gretchen S. Sween — Petitioner
Texas
Craig William CosperTexas Attorney General's Office, Respondent